Word: brainchild
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...literary history for hermeneutics. Nowhere is this radical project illustrated better than in the humorous and ingenious, "My Monster/My Self", in which Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is read as an autobiographical confession of maternal rejection. The literary monster is analyzed as product of "a single parent household," the unwanted brainchild of a mad (pro)creator, who in childhood was abandoned by her own mother...
...Rear Window is the brainchild of David Kleiler, who runs the organization out of his home in Brookline. Kleiler began the Rear Window a little over six years ago, after 12 years of teaching film at Babson College. Feeling disconnected from the world of cinema after quitting Babson, Kleiler began the organization as a showcase for locally produced films, particularly shorts, which were going unappreciated in the Boston community. Kleiler had previously shown films in his living room, and liked the casual environment and discussion such a format provided...
...proposal is the brainchild of L.A. Councilman Robert Farrell, a South Central resident who believes his area is being shortchanged by the I've-got-mine attitude that prevails in safer parts of the city. "The levels of violent crime in South Central Los Angeles are just no longer acceptable," says Farrell. "My car has been broken into, my house has been burglarized, and my wife has been robbed at gunpoint. No other members of the city council would put up with this...
ClassMates is the brainchild of Robin Alper '87 and Betsy Kramer '87. The two Quincy House residents are banking on their belief that such a venture will fill an existing gap in the social lives of local students...
...profitable business for one of his classes at Penn's Wharton School of Business. So after doing research into the logistics of such an inter-Ivy publication, he began to create a "network through friends and contacts" of students at the different campuses to write and distribute his brainchild, Frankel said...